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<body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>I can understand how this would be useful for a human user, but I’ve written scripts that interact with a remote BBS and if the mode were to change it could cause the script to fail. For instance, the BBS might give prompts suitable for a human rather than the abbreviated prompts an automated remote would be looking for.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once a remote requests a specific mode, it should remain in that mode unless commanded to change.</div>
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<div>From "Chris Maness" <<a href="mailto:christopher.maness@gmail.com">christopher.maness@gmail.com</a>></div>
<div>To "TAPR xNOS Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org">nos-bbs@lists.tapr.org</a>>; "M Langelaar" <<a href="mailto:maiko@pcsinternet.ca">maiko@pcsinternet.ca</a>></div>
<div>Date 3/21/2025 7:29:59 AM</div>
<div>Subject [nos-bbs] JNOS Feature Request</div></div><div x-em-quote=""><br /></div>
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<div class="plain_line">I am not sure how hard this would be to implement. I have been</div>
<div class="plain_line">playing with DPBOX on old Linux and new NetBSD installs. One very</div>
<div class="plain_line">cool feature is that if it has you configured as a neighbor BBS it</div>
<div class="plain_line">will just give you the "chicken lips" prompt for a BBS, but the second</div>
<div class="plain_line">you initiate a user command, it will convert the session to a regular</div>
<div class="plain_line">user. This is a very cool feature.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">-Any thoughts?</div>
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<div class="plain_line">Thanks,</div>
<div class="plain_line">Chris Maness</div>
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